ʻAmarah West Topographical List
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Date: c. 1279-1213 BCE
A New Kingdom Egyptian topographical inscription from the temple of Ramses II at ʻAmarah West in Nubia (ca. 1279-1213 BCE). Lines 93-98 list six subdivisions of the “Shasu-land” (ta shasu), duplicating four names from the older Soleb list of Amenhotep III in reversed sequence and adding Seir at the head. The list pairs the Shasu group named yhwʒ (a linguistic match for the Israelite divine name) with Seir, the southern wilderness from which Israel's earliest poetry says Yahweh marched out (Judges 5:4-5; Deuteronomy 33:2).
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